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Fada is a member of the Expert Assessment Group for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Green List, with a focus on conservation efforts in Nigeria. [13] She established the North Wales Africa Society, which works to promote cultural exchange and collaboration between North Wales and African communities. [14] [15] [16] [17]
One coalition, the Mangrove Forest Conservation Society of Nigeria, established in 1995, has spread its vision of establishing peaceful and sustainable coexistence between regional rural development and mangrove ecosystems across numerous Niger Delta cities (such as Asaba, Benin, Calabar, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Uyo, and Yenegoa). [71]
Conservation biologists research and educate on the trends and process of biodiversity loss, species extinctions, and the negative effect these are having on our capabilities to sustain the well-being of human society. Conservation biologists work in the field and office, in government, universities, non-profit organizations and industry.
The origin of the society resulted from the emergence of the field as a distinct subject in the 1970s. The phrase conservation biology originated from a conference of ecologists and population biologists at the University of Michigan, that published the book "Conservation Biology" An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective [7] was highly influential internationally, eventually selling tens of ...
The Akintola Williams Arboretum at the Nigerian Conservation Foundation headquarters in Lagos is named in his honor. [5] It engages in lobbying work both at the national and state levels. It also has a number of educational initiatives to raise awareness of environmental issues in Nigeria. It works with higher education, primary and secondary ...
The Nigerian government, along with international conservation organizations, has established protected areas and national parks to safeguard the biodiversity within these forests. [86] Efforts are being made to promote sustainable land-use practices, reforestation , and community-based conservation programs.
Topography of Nigeria. Nigeria is a large country in West Africa just north of the equator. It is bounded by Benin to the west, Niger to the north, Cameroon to the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. The country consists of several large plateaus separated by the valleys of the two major rivers, the Niger and the Benue, and their tributaries.
With a deteriorating forest ecosystem, it is one of Nigeria's top conservation priority places for the critically endangered Nigeria-Cameroun chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ellioti). [ 9 ] [ 10 ] This animal is available in many forested areas of the Nigeria region, but it has gone into extinction locally in many areas over the last few decades.